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The people’s game: How China’s rural soccer leagues are rebuilding faith in a broken sportThe league won legions of fans with its passionate matches, half-time folk performances and prizes of livestock, boosting local tourism and...- At the World Cup, the field thins and the contenders expandThat unpredictability, that sense of old hierarchies and long-standing orders being overturned on a daily basis, has illuminated the World ...
- Dear China: Whose side are you on in Ukraine?Why would President Xi Jinping of China take such a stand, which would seemingly undermine his dream of seizing Taiwan the same way Putin i...
- Ukraine invasion puts Russia's elite sports status at riskThe country's invasion of Ukraine, coming on the heels of yet another drug scandal that consumed the Beijing Olympics earlier this month, c...
- China’s empire of money is reshaping lives across new Silk RoadIf Xi's ambitions become a reality, Beijing will cement its position at the center of a new world economic order.
- A top author explains why India should never bid for the football world cupSimon Kuper says India does not have any world-class sporting stadiums yet. And he see no point in building them.
- President XI Jinping invests billions to become 'a world football superpower'Government in China is going crazy to push football in the country. They hope football will be played by over 50 million people by 2020.
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